Commonly, this capability is provided in Media Centre or HTPC receivers.

VLC media player is one open-source client which can accept audio and video streams via local-area network.

The Hauppauge MediaMVP is a Linux-based embedded diskless workstation which was created solely to display audio, video and still images from streaming servers or from network-attached storage. A special-purpose device, it has no disc drives and no tuners of its own.